Gaius Epidius Marullus

Gaius Epidius Marullus was a Roman tribune who was known for his opposition to Julius Caesar during the mid-1st century BC.

Biography
Gaius Epidius Marullus was a member of the Roman Senate before being appointed a tribune of the people in the city of Rome. In 45 BC, he and Lucius Caesetius Flavus drove a crowd of commoners from the streets for celebrating Julius Caesar's victory at the Battle of Munda, insulting the crowd for changing their loyalty from Pompey the Great to Caesar. The two tribunes later removed a diadem from a statue of Caesar, and they arrested several Romans who cried out Rex ("King") as Caesar passed them by on the streets. Caesar acted harshly against the tribunes who arrested his supporters, stripping them of senatorial and tribunal rank.